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by mr. origami

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ServerA runs Exchange 5.5. ServerB runs Outlook Web Access. When I stop all Exchange services on ServerA to do an offline backup, then start them all up again, OWA doesn't work saying the http server is down even though regular LAN clients can get e-mail fine. OWA won't work again until OWA ServerB is rebooted.

Looks as though when Exchange services stop, OWA loses it's connection. When Exchange services are restarted, that connection is never reestablished. How do I combat this? Is there a service on OWA I can stop before Exchange services stop, then start after Exchange services restart so as to not have to reboot OWA ServerB after our daily offline backup of Exchange?

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by hdunnng

I am not sure these will work but try stopping the IISadmin service and the WWW Publishing service together in a script.
net stop "IIS Admin Service"
net stop "World Wide Web Publishing Service"

You could make make a separate script to start them also. Then set the NT scheduler to run the the "stop" batch file at one time and the "start" file when the backups are done.
Henry

by mr. origami

Figured it out before I read your response - but the solution was to stop/start the World Wide Web Service on the OWA server (3WSVC). Didn't have to mess with the IIS service at all. Thanks.

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